No English parliament - Falconer

arden forester · 11-03-2006, 11:09 PM

Independence Now!

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England has 83% of Britain's population and around 80% of the seats in the House of Commons so any political party that wants to govern the UK has to appeal very substantially to the English population whilst it could ignore both the Scots and the Welsh and still get a good majority in Parliament.

This doesn't make much sense, as New Labour has done nothing to assist English thinking. The NE assembly was kicked out, but Prescott still hankers after pushing this and other assemblies onto England. The counties are being hacked up. Police mergers being forced on us. I could go on.

Those of us who were Unionists knew that devolution would upset the balance. You can't do half-hearted hamfisted constitutional changes. Blair only does what is politically expedient.

Labour needs to keep ALL its Scottish & Welsh MPs so that England can get poorer health services and pay more INTO phpbb_Scotish coffers.

I want fairness in our constitutional settlement, not a New Labour stitch-up! :shock:

Independence Now! · 12-03-2006, 09:47 PM

It is certainly true that New Labour approached this subject with their own political self-interest at the forefront of their concerns but then don't all parties do likewise with constitutional reform?

I read an article in the Times that suggested one solution could be if Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish members of Parliament voluntarilly abstained from voting on purely English matters as the SNP does.

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12-03-2006, 09:47 PM	#12 (permalink)
Independence Now! Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 1,096	It is certainly true that New Labour approached this subject with their own political self-interest at the forefront of their concerns but then don't all parties do likewise with constitutional reform? I read an article in the Times that suggested one solution could be if Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish members of Parliament voluntarilly abstained from voting on purely English matters as the SNP does.